JAZZIE B (SOUL II SOUL)

THE TITLE OF SOUL II SOUL’S 1989 DEBUT ALBUM – CLUB CLASSICS VOL. ONE – WAS A SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY…

It was an essential purchase – an optimistic antidote to the times, as the decade slid away from focusing on problems to partying. Selling almost a million in its day (and with UK number one single BACK TO LIFE leading the charge on its behalf), CLUB CLASSICS VOL. ONE still stands as something special twenty-seven years later. In this brief but beautiful new edition of The Mouthcast – recorded just ahead of the transmission of a special BBC documentary (FROM DOLE TO SOUL) – driving force Jazzie B reflects on the album, and how Soul II Soul transitioned from being a reggae sound-system to a full band…